perlous
See also: per'lous
English
Adjective
perlous (comparative more perlous, superlative most perlous)
- Obsolete form of perilous.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 19:
- Ne would for price or prayers once affoord
To ferry that old man over that perlous foord.
References
- “perlous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
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